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A former dancer, Mr. Johnson collaborated with Mel Brooks on several movies and once asked him, “‘Oh my God, are we allowed to show this?”

The death of the show’s composer, Michael Friedman, makes this musical about loss an accidental and indispensable elegy.

The show based on slave songs closed in Montreal. But after a backlash, several theaters in Quebec are planning to stage it.

The first American production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in the language of the shtetl means training actors to hit the inflections, not just the notes.

With “Head Over Heels” in previews, we looked at how five Go-Go’s songs evolved into musical-theater numbers.

This Swiss mime troupe’s show “you & me” is like the Muppets, but heavily influenced by French surrealism and a few psychotropics.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” doesn’t use elaborate special effects. Its magic comes from movement, and Steven Hoggett is its wizard choreographer.

Radiohead returns to Madison Square Garden, the Boston Symphony Orchestra heads to its summer home and Lucinda Child restages her minimalist opus.

Fiery performances by Lia Williams in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Adrienne Warren in “Tina” newly illuminate familiar female characters.

Defiance and justice drive this brisk staging from the Classical Theater of Harlem, directed by Carl Cofield.